Re: [ceph-users] CephFS First product release discussion

2013-03-07 Thread Félix Ortega Hortigüela
I think stable mds daemon and fsck or a way to recover some of the data once the mds crash is the only thing we need. We are using ceph as a very big fs for doing nightly backups of our 3000+ servers. We have some front servers doing rsync over slow adsl lines, saving all data on a very big cephfs

Re: [ceph-users] CephFS First product release discussion

2013-03-07 Thread Jimmy Tang
On 5 Mar 2013, at 17:03, Greg Farnum wrote: > This is a companion discussion to the blog post at > http://ceph.com/dev-notes/cephfs-mds-status-discussion/ — go read that! > > The short and slightly alternate version: I spent most of about two weeks > working on bugs related to snapshots in the

Re: [ceph-users] CephFS First product release discussion

2013-03-06 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
On 3/5/2013 11:01 PM, Neil Levine wrote: As an extra request, it would be great if people explained a little about their use-case for the filesystem so we can better understand how the features requested map to the type of workloads people are trying. For the simple case of a basic file server:

Re: [ceph-users] CephFS First product release discussion

2013-03-05 Thread Neil Levine
As an extra request, it would be great if people explained a little about their use-case for the filesystem so we can better understand how the features requested map to the type of workloads people are trying. Thanks Neil On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 9:03 AM, Greg Farnum wrote: > This is a companion

Re: [ceph-users] CephFS First product release discussion

2013-03-05 Thread Bryan Stillwell
On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 12:44 PM, Kevin Decherf wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 05, 2013 at 12:27:04PM -0600, Dino Yancey wrote: > > The only two features I'd deem necessary for our workload would be > > stable distributed metadata / MDS and a working fsck equivalent. > > Snapshots would be great once the f

Re: [ceph-users] CephFS First product release discussion

2013-03-05 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
On 03/05/2013 03:25 PM, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: > On 03/05/2013 02:13 PM, Steven Presser wrote: >> I'm currently running centos on 3.6.9 and only haven't updated it >> because of my own laziness. I'd be happy to provide .config files for >> this. I mean, thanks for the offer, but the issue isn't th

Re: [ceph-users] CephFS First product release discussion

2013-03-05 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
On 03/05/2013 02:13 PM, Steven Presser wrote: > I'm currently running centos on 3.6.9 and only haven't updated it > because of my own laziness. I'd be happy to provide .config files for > this. I only have about 60 hosts here and 3 dozen more downstairs, plus a bunch of programming projects. Gene

Re: [ceph-users] CephFS First product release discussion

2013-03-05 Thread Steven Presser
I'm currently running centos on 3.6.9 and only haven't updated it because of my own laziness. I'd be happy to provide .config files for this. On 03/05/2013 01:38 PM, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: On 03/05/2013 12:27 PM, Dino Yancey wrote: The only two features I'd deem necessary for our workload wou

Re: [ceph-users] CephFS First product release discussion

2013-03-05 Thread Kevin Decherf
On Tue, Mar 05, 2013 at 12:27:04PM -0600, Dino Yancey wrote: > The only two features I'd deem necessary for our workload would be > stable distributed metadata / MDS and a working fsck equivalent. > Snapshots would be great once the feature is deemed stable, as would We have the same needs here.

Re: [ceph-users] CephFS First product release discussion

2013-03-05 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
On 03/05/2013 12:27 PM, Dino Yancey wrote: > The only two features I'd deem necessary for our workload would be > stable distributed metadata / MDS and a working fsck equivalent. > Snapshots would be great once the feature is deemed stable, as would > nfs / cifs reexport, and quota support eventual

Re: [ceph-users] CephFS First product release discussion

2013-03-05 Thread Dino Yancey
The only two features I'd deem necessary for our workload would be stable distributed metadata / MDS and a working fsck equivalent. Snapshots would be great once the feature is deemed stable, as would nfs / cifs reexport, and quota support eventually would be nice to have. Anything else is gravy.

[ceph-users] CephFS First product release discussion

2013-03-05 Thread Greg Farnum
This is a companion discussion to the blog post at http://ceph.com/dev-notes/cephfs-mds-status-discussion/ — go read that! The short and slightly alternate version: I spent most of about two weeks working on bugs related to snapshots in the MDS, and we started realizing that we could probably d